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A new trend is sweeping the nation — or, at least, among young far-left women.
As one anonymous woman from Washington recently told Newsweek: “I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized.”
Seriously?
Apparently, more and more women are getting sterilized, not entirely because they don’t want to be parents, but because Donald Trump won the presidential election.
Citing fears about abortion bans and rollbacks of reproductive rights, young women are subjecting themselves to irreversible and invasive procedures to get their tubes tied.
As a 24-year-old, I find this to be absolute insanity.
Tying your tubes over politics — and before the man is even in office — is not just an overreaction, it’s living your life like Chicken Little, afraid of the sky falling. Trump has already said he will not sign a national abortion ban.
These women are living in fear of a threat that doesn’t even exist.
Or, perhaps, it’s clout? Nothing says ultra-resistance like pledging fealty to the cause by sacrificing your fertility.
Several women who spoke to Newsweek claimed they had no choice but to take this severe route.
One anonymous woman claimed she felt “forced into surgery.” Another, Eden Ixora from Florida, said Trump’s election was a “call to action” and described pregnancy as “worse than death.”
Wow. That’s pleasant.
Young women today have the privilege of enjoying more birth control options than any generation in human history. Many have a 99% efficacy rate.
Why not pop in an IUD, or use a condom, or get on the birth control pill, which you can now buy over the counter — yes, even in Florida — without even getting a doctor’s prescription. Handy online services will also deliver them straight to your door.
Yes, it is true that access to abortion has become more difficult in certain areas of the country, but life-altering surgery is a harsh first resort.
What these women seem not to realize is that whether Trump or Kamala Harris won the election is largely irrelevant. When Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion became a state issue. This isn’t a debate that will get ironed out in the White House.
As NBC has reported, experts predict that, even if a bill came before the House — and even with Republicans having majority control — federal restrictions are unlikely to happen.
Yet that hasn’t stopped these women from going for the most extreme option of birth control possible, and then broadcasting it for the world to see.
After all, these freedom fighters’ shocking TikTok videos did get oodles of views.
But they are, at least in part, victims of the alarmist lies spread by dystopia-mongers who would rather scare women into permanently sterilizing themselves than see a Trump victory.
The activists who caused this frenzy should be ashamed for driving young women to make life-altering medical decisions that they absolutely did not need to make.
(Not all young women fell for the panic. A healthy 38% of those aged 18 to 29 — prime reproductive age — voted for Trump.)
Of course, it’s their body and their choice. More power to them. They can and should do whatever they want.
And, sure, not every woman wants to be a mother one day. But why have surgery if you don’t have to?
Yet one of these women, who chose to remain anonymous, told Newsweek she and her husband know they don’t want to have kids — but she “scheduled a sterilization appointment in October, ‘fully planning to cancel the surgery the day after the election, assuming Kamala won.’”
Talk about tying your tubes to spite your own uterus.
Meanwhile, those doomsayers ringing the alarm bells on women’s rights in America need to cool it. Enough with “The Handmaid’s Tale” hoods.
Concerned about reproductive rights? Get involved at the state level rather than oversharing extremist birth control methods on TikTok.
It’s a bit of an insult to our sisters around the world who are living in actual oppressive regimes — like in Afghanistan, where women are now prohibited from speaking to one another.
Can we zoom out and gain some perspective here? It’s time to take a chill pill, or at least a birth control pill.